420mm Radiator or fan shroud reducers 140 to 120

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Well ive decided to bite the bullet and get a new case, the FD Desire S2 Vision, this comes bundled with some quite nice looking 140mm fans.........nowwwww........I currently have a Black Ice 360mm Radiator and a Black ice 240mm Radiator, so the big question is:

Do I remove the bundled fans and just use 120mm fans with my current 360 rad.

Buy a 420mm (3 x 140mm) Rad and use the fans the case comes supplied with.

Or Finally, get some shrouds (3.99 each) from a site that does everything from A to Z which will attach one side to the 140mm fans and the other side to the 120mm (360mm) radiator.
 
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Well ive decided to bite the bullet and get a new case, the FD Desire S2 Vision, this comes bundled with some quite nice looking 140mm fans.........nowwwww........I currently have a Black Ice 360mm Radiator and a Black ice 240mm Radiator, so the big question is:

Do I remove the bundled fans and just use 120mm fans with my current 360 rad.

Buy a 420mm (3 x 140mm) Rad and use the fans the case comes supplied with.

Or Finally, get some shrouds (3.99 each) from a site that does everything from A to Z which will attach one side to the 140mm fans and the other side to the 120mm (360mm) radiator.
If you think about the geometry of fan shroud adapters, the three 120mm fan slots wouldn't support 140mm fans side by side.

You could fit 3 x 120mm fans to a 420mm radiator though it would look weird.

My suggestion would be what's cheaper: 3 x decent 120mm fans. Then you have either three spare 140mm fans for case flow, or you can sell them on.
 
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Well ive decided to bite the bullet and get a new case, the FD Desire S2 Vision, this comes bundled with some quite nice looking 140mm fans.........nowwwww........I currently have a Black Ice 360mm Radiator and a Black ice 240mm Radiator, so the big question is:

Do I remove the bundled fans and just use 120mm fans with my current 360 rad.

Buy a 420mm (3 x 140mm) Rad and use the fans the case comes supplied with.

Or Finally, get some shrouds (3.99 each) from a site that does everything from A to Z which will attach one side to the 140mm fans and the other side to the 120mm (360mm) radiator.

Just buy some 120mm fans for your existing rad, the 140mm wide rads in the top are very tight, limitted to 35mm memory clearance which means low profile Ram with many boards. 8pack without heat spreaders is 37mm. It's quite a compact ATX case once you get rads , pump etc.

Don't bother with fan shrouds, the fans that come with the case are 3pin and spin at 1000rpm so nothing worth any effort (and increased thickness of shrouds) to keep.
The are fine for general airflow, but I'm not using the three that came with my R6, I picked up some arctic P12 PWM PST for around £5 each.

The P12's spin at 200-1800 RPM on PWM so can be very silent or ramp up if needed. I'm going with 3 x 240mm rads in the R6 so I can keep the 5.25 slot.
These fans also come with a piggy back connector so you can several can have the same PWM signal with just one tacho back to the board.
Keeps it simple when Gigabyte etc are putting 2A fan headers on the board, theoretically I could run 8 fans on 1 header, though 4 is probably safer.
 
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